Escort S1 RS Turbo mk3 escort doing a 1/4 mile drag at Santapod Raceway UK. Video is from 2011, RS Owners Club central day, this was the fastest S1 RS turbo there that day.
The engine is as follows - .5 oversize cast mahle pistons, standard rods, standard crank shaft. sightly raised compression ratio [from 8.3:1 to 8.5:1] a kent 35 cam shaft and vernier pulley, running on MFI still!
Gearbox was an RST gearbox [BC] with a fiesta RS1800 gear set in it [for closer ratios] and a quaife ATB diff.
This car was pictured in FastFord magazine on the day!
Started off with a worst time of 15.2, then ran a few 14's and got it down to two 13.9 second runs.
